Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
This collection of essays from scholars in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands, examines how biases against minorities in the U.S. and western Europe are perpetuated directly and indirectly through such media channels as newspapers, television coverage, everyday language use, and through the educational curriculum, teacher attitudes, and teacher-student interaction. Written especially for this volume, the essays demonstrate how the dominant population controls not only what happens to subordinate populations, but also how the general public perceives that reality. Discourse and Discrimination is valuable reading for students and scholars in linguistics, discourse analysis, mass communication, sociology, social psychology, and black and ethnic studies.
Synopsis
Lingusitic and communicative dimensions of the propagation of racism through the media, everyday language, and the educational curriculum.
This collection of essays from scholars in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands, examines how biases against minorities in the U.S. and western Europe are perpetuated directly and indirectly through such media channels as newspapers, television coverage, everyday language use, and through the educational curriculum, teacher attitudes, and teacher-student interaction. Written especially for this volume, the essays demonstrate how the dominant population controls not only what happens to subordinate populations, but also how the general public perceives that reality. Discourse and Discrimination is valuable reading for students and scholars in linguistics, discourse analysis, mass communication, sociology, social psychology, and black and ethnic studies.
Table of Contents
Newsmagazines, public policy, and the Black agenda / Jack L. Daniel and Anita L. Allen -- "The Cosby show" and American racial discourse / John D.H. Downing -- Some theoretical notions and preliminary research concerning derogatory ethnic labels / Jeff Greenberg, S.L. Kirkland, and Tom Pyszczynski -- Minorities and social control in the newsroom / Sherrie Mazingo -- The British new right's "enemy within" / Gill Seidel -- Discriminatory discourse on Afro-American speech / Geneva Smitherman-Donaldson -- From "rights" to "needs" / Mark Sykes -- Storytelling and classroom discrimination / Orlando L. Taylor and Maryon M. Matsuda -- How "they" hit the headlines / Teun A. Van Dijk.